Letter: Thank you to Davis Sunrise Rotary
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Make It Happen for Yolo County was honored to receive a donation of $3,225 from the Davis Sunrise Rotary this month to provide 15 UC Davis Guardian Scholars with move-in baskets as these exceptional current and former foster youths work to complete their advanced degrees.
Thanks to Davis Sunrise Rotary Club, each Guardian Scholar will receive a mop, broom and vacuum cleaner as well as a laundry basket filled with toilet paper, paper towels, soap, sponge, toilet cleaner, toilet brush, bathroom and all-purpose cleaners, a multi-purpose tool for simple repairs and a grocery gift card.
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Susie Davis, a longtime force for change in the local nonprofit sector, has been named the new executive director of Guardian Scholars, a scholarship program that supports local, first-generation college students.
Ron Davis, the founder of Guardian Scholars who shares a last name with his new executive director, said that choosing Davis to lead the organization was the natural and obvious choice.
“To know Susie is to love her,” Ron Davis said Monday. “To have her lead us into the next chapter of Guardian Scholars is exciting and gratifying. She just always brings energy and new life.”
UCLA
The Bruin Guardian Scholars Program has helped UCLA narrow the educational gap for current and former foster youth; it now serves more than 200 students. Ariel Okamoto |
May 24, 2021
UCLA has received a gift of $1 million from Jill and Timothy Harmon to create an endowment for the Bruin Guardian Scholars Program. The Harmons are former foster parents and longtime advocates for young people in the foster care system.
Bruin Guardian Scholars provides financial assistance, mentoring, and social and other support for UCLA students who are or were in foster care.
The endowment will provide funding that will support the program in perpetuity, starting with a salary for a full-time social worker. Through previous gifts beginning in 2017, the Harmons provided some of the initial funding for the social worker position, ensuring that students in the program had someone to turn to for college and career advice, tips on accessing financial and community resources, and a li
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Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, kids have taken the brunt of the social and emotional damage. A new partnership aims to repair or stave off some of that damage.
The SOS Outreach program for about 25 years has worked to get kids who need help into snowboarding, along with mentoring and other assistance. That group in the past ski season has forged a partnership with My Future Pathways, a more recent Vail Valley organization with many of the same goals.
My Future Pathways director Bratzo Horruitiner said the partnership was forged quickly.
“We work with the same kids, the same demographics with the same need,” Horruitiner. After a first meeting with SOS Outreach Director Seth Ehrlich, “a month later, we were on the mountain,” Horruitiner said.